Sentinelle (2021)

Transferred home after a traumatizing combat mission, a trained French soldier uses her lethal skills to hunt down the man who hurt her sister.

Director:

Julien Leclercq

Writers:

Julien Leclercq (scenario & dialogue), Matthieu Serveau (scenario & dialogue)

Stars:

Olga Kurylenko, Marilyn Lima, Michel Nabokoff

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Olga Kurylenko	...	Klara
Marilyn Lima	...	Tania
Michel Nabokoff	...	Leonod Kadnikov
Martin Swabey	...	Lieutenant Eric Jaubert
Carole Weyers	...	Capitaine Catherine Muller
Andrey Gorlenko	...	Yvan Kadnikov
Gabriel Almaer	...	Armurier
Blaise Afonso	...	Soldat opération Sentinelle
Guillaume Duhesme	...	Lieutenant Colonel
Michel Biel	...	Aurélien
Mustapha Makhada	...	Père Syrien
Erico Salamone	...	Patron du Millenium
Olivier Massart	...	Médecin de Tania
Doriane Pasquale	...	Jeune femme plage
Alain Eloy	...	Médecin militaire

Storyline

Klara who is thirty-three years old. She is an interpreter in the French Army. After experiencing the horrors of war in Syria, she was transferred to Nice as part of Operation Sentinel. There, with her mother and her sister Tania, she tries to rebuild herself. But one evening, after going to a nightclub, Tania is found half-dead on the beach. She was raped and beaten up. Klara will then do everything to find the attackers and avenge her sister. This merciless hunt will lead her in the footsteps of Yvan Kadnikov, the son of a powerful Russian oligarch of the French Riviera.

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Plot Keywords:

female soldier | sister | rape | lesbian | vengeance | 

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Genres:

Action | Drama | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Did You Know?

Trivia

The French army unit depicted is the 92nd Infantry Regiment, which has its home base at Clermont Ferrand.

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Goofs

When Klara kills the man who stabbed her, she shoots him from his eye. After a second, when police checks his pulse, we can see no blood or injury at his face.

User Reviews

Feels realistic, but it's not. And it fails storywise.

I wanted to like the film and I expected to. It's a French film, and they usually don't pull their punches, then it's action and French action movies, when well done, are the best, and finally it starred Olga Kurylenko, who is a talented actress, not to mention really good looking. I mean, she's 40 and she looks 27.

Yet the whole movie is following this trained soldier fighting random people in order to get to her target. The entire story of the film is that one sentence. And the fight scenes were good, but far between, and too often they started from a careful and silent exploration of a building and some guy suddenly coming out of nowhere. The rest was boring and didn't make much sense. I do hope in France they don't take PTSD soldiers with an opioid addiction, arm them with Famas and let them roam wherever they want, even when wanted by the police and when they know where she's headed. The characters: all formulaic and most were superfluous. When they were not, they had a lot of extra characteristics not used anywhere. For example Olga's character knows five foreign languages - I expected her to put that to use, but it was just a random fact.

The worst, though, was the ending. In order to make it a bit longer, they had the bad guy escape once, only to be killed a few minutes later, when the target of one hour and twenty minutes was reached.

Bottom line: a failed film that doesn't know what it wants to be.

Details

Official Sites:

annonce Netflix in Stratégies Netflix Site

Country:

France

Language:

French Arabic Russian

Release Date:

5 March 2021 (USA)

Also Known As:

Sentinelle

Filming Locations:

Brussels, Belgium

Box Office

Budget:

EUR6,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Labyrinthe Films

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1